Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk series, has given us bullying about where the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel will be set.
Pondsmith sat at Digital Dragons, a gaming industry conference held at Krakow in Pondsmith, where he found Gamestar’s next game, discussing the short, funny thing about the development of the Cyberpunk series, Cyberpunk 2077, and collaboration with the current Codenem Project Orion, where the series is upcoming sequel.
Apart from a few small details the developers have shared so far, we still know little about Orion.
However, in his chat at Digital Dragons (the Pondsmith segment starts around 3:06), he said the game may be taking us outside the Night City boundary, and perhaps outside the national boundary.
“I feel like Chicago was wrong.”
A brief discussion of Pondsmith’s Project Orion begins at about 3:45:45 from the end of the interview, and what he revealed in another city seems to have slipped by chance.
“I spent a lot of time talking to one of the guys in the environment,” he says.
And Night City is still there, but I remember going and going after it. And it doesn’t feel like a blade runner, it feels like Chicago was wrong.
His mention of Chicago is interesting considering how Reddit fans noticed on CyberPunk 2077 that in-game ads promote a 3-hour trip between Night City and Chicago coming in 2080.
The way he puts it seems like both Night City and this new city are accessible to players. Perhaps due to this upcoming high-speed link with Chicago?
That would be a surprising choice given that Chicago is almost 2,000 miles away from Night City in Morro Bay, California between Los Angeles and San Francisco, but this inconspicuous in-game ad could make it meaningful.
Of course there were other rumors about where Project Orion would be set. It will likely take a long time before the game is properly revealed, so who knows how things will develop in the coming years.
